Golden Grizzly - Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Introduction

The Skywind free play slot version of Golden Grizzly has all the features of the gambling version, so it’s ideal for a practice run. It has inevitable similarities to Blueprint Gaming’s Grizzly Gold slot and even has the same RTP and volatility, although significantly fewer paylines. Golden Grizzly is also a slot with wild feature benefits, and ploughs its own furrow.

Golden Grizzly has a 5-reel, 4-column grid with 5 fixed paylines. The minimum coin value is 0.01 and the maximum is 5. The minimum bet is 0.5 and the maximum is 250. On the reels there are 11 regular symbols: a grizzly bear, a wildcat, a fox, owl and moose in an ‘of-a-kind’ grouping, a beaver and the highest five playing cards. The wild is a grizzly’s paw print and the scatter is the Golden Grizzly logo.

Theme, Graphics and Soundtrack

Golden Grizzly has a very striking hyper-realist backdrop with the detail of a photograph and the completeness of a painting. It is a landscape of fields, forests and mountains in a stunning wsh of purples and oranges. The grid is quite plain, with a simple golden border. The reels have no borders and all the focus is on the illustrations which have an equally realist appearance. The only slightly false note is that the bear is surrounded by a kind of gold collar, which makes it look as if he or she has already been shot and mounted. Animation is minimal and the soundtrack is dominated by drumbeats, with other ethnic and unusual instruments in the background. Musical flourishes accompany wins but it is generally low key.

Golden Grizzly RTP and Variance

The Return to Player is 96.00% and the volatility or variance is medium.

How to Play Golden Grizzly

1. This is a slot with 50 paylines. Winning combinations are counted from the leftmost reel to the right and symbols must be consecutive along a payline. 
2. Only the highest win on each line will be paid. Coinciding wins on different paylines are added.
3. Click on the minus and plus buttons to either side of the total bet meter to set your bet. 
4. If you wish to use auto mode simply click auto to the left of the play button. You can choose a number of automatic spins from 10 to 99 or until any feature is triggered.
5. Toggle the turbo switch to start fast spin mode. While you are in this mode some of the animations and sounds will be skipped. Click it again to return to normal play speed.
6. Press the play button or the space bar to spin the reels at the current bet level. Press either of them again to stop the reels. 
7. Click on the i button to open the reference page to read more about the different elements of the game. On the final page of these five, click on Press Here for full playing instructions..
8. Your credit balance will be displayed in the bottom left hand corner of the black bar and will be updated with each spin. The mute button and the game history button are at the bottom right.
9. The wild appears on reels 2, 3, 4 and 5. It substitutes for all symbols except the scatter.
10. The scatter appears on reels 1, 2 and 3. It triggers 9 free games.
11. We encourage you always to gamble responsibly. Gambling is for adults only. If you are playing for real money please be aware that you can lose up to your entire balance. Make sure you are gambling no more than you can afford to lose. When the game is no longer enjoyable please stop playing.

Bet Sizes and Paytable Wins

The bet size ranges from 0.5 to 250.

The paytable multiplier values range from 2x or 3x to 5x. The highest multiplier values are as follows:

Grizzly
5 = 270

Wild Cat
5 = 260

Fox, Owl, Moose in of-a-kind combinations
5 = 150

Beaver
5 = 150

Ace, King
5 = 100

Queen, Jack, 10 in of-a-kind combinations
5 = 80

Max-win 270x

Volatility High

Top RTP 96.13%

Golden Grizzly Bonus Features

Respins

When a grizzly bear fills reel 1 you will be awarded 2 respins. All wild and scatter symbols will be locked in position during the triggering spin or the respins until both respins have finished. Free games cannot be triggered during respins.

Free Games

If scatters land in reels 1, 2 and 3 they will trigger 9 free games. The respins feature can be triggered during free games under the same conditions as in the base game. Free games can be retriggered indefinitely.

Golden Grizzly Review: Our Verdict

The visual possibilities of the material are substantial and we felt Skywind have not made the most of them. This is a wonderful setting and a bonus game that exploits it would be welcome. Even a gamble feature would be welcome. It really offers nothing more than standard game play and some free games and respins. It’s not even as if the RTP is anything to get excited bout, being more or less bang on average.

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